Drooling over my keyboard--what a glorious quilt!

Thanks for all the lovely comments!

A speaker at our guild one month said the Amish don't have qualms about selling family quilts. They believe their heritage is the actual sewing skill that mom/grandmom taught them. Does that make sense? I love that I have these quilts, but I treasure the skills my GM taught me.

This quilt is beautiful. Something to treasure. It reminds me of the quilts my Grandmother made and the old traditional patch work quilts are still my favorites.

Love it, inspires me to maybe get my dresden plate quilt done.

What a treasure you have there. I just love the vintage quilts.

That is a beautiful quilt and a wonderful legacy. I wonder if someday quilters will look at our "modern" OBWs, French braids, stack-n-whack, etc. and think of them as antique quilt patterns. Will they still be using rotary cutters, or will lasers do all the work? How much will sewing machines change? Will fabric dyes finally quit fading? I am assuming people will still quilt!

Oh that is very very nice.

How I often wish I had some handmade things from my G'GP. I do have some crochet work that my maternal G'M made & it is truly beautiful. It is such a treasure to have family heirlooms. Enjoy! :D
PS: as you can see, I finally got my pictures on here! YAY! lol!

ooooh. my, that is a beautiful heirloom, your great gran did beautiful work.
I imagine that you and your mum feel very blessed to have it.
It is a big responsibility to look after such a treasure. At our LQS we were chatting today about how scary it is to decide whether to try to carefully clean and/or mend an heirloom. We were privileged to be shown a yo yo quilt with hundreds of tiny 1 inch yo yos made in the mid or early 1800's and another blanket of silk and tulle pastel yo-yos of about 3 inch diameter. The tiny meticulous whipped stitches were wonderful to see.

very cute dogs you have there! I bet they love to test your quilts for you.